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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

11: Lord of Loud

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

He didn't like the quiet, so he made sure we all could pump up the volume.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Holly and Cheneyce are prepping for a big weekend away and it needs to go exactly to plan

0:05.5

so they need to know exactly what they get in, like the choice of over 800 hotels.

0:09.9

Yes! Right in the centre!

0:12.1

So there are only moments away from where they want to be, with a super comfy bed waiting

0:16.8

for them at the end of the night. And with checkout by 12pm they can even hit snooze.

0:22.6

Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip. Premier in, rest easy. Only available to book at

0:27.8

Premierin.com. This is the way I heard it.

0:38.0

Jimmy was a quiet kid from London. He was also a prisoner. From his toes to his arm pits,

0:44.3

the young lad was encased in plaster, a suffocating body cast that kept him completely immobile.

0:51.2

From most of his childhood, Jimmy endured the terrible suffocating quiet,

0:55.4

wasting away a little more with every passing day. But tuberculosis of the bones is an unpredictable

1:02.7

thing, and happily by the age of 13 Jimmy had begun to recover. Slowly he outgrew his plaster

1:10.8

cocoon and hobbled into the world around him. It was a tough transition to build his strength

1:17.2

and confidence he took up tap dancing and found himself drawn to the music. But in the pre-war

1:23.7

London of 1938 there was no money in dancing. So he tried his hand at selling shoes.

1:30.5

Then he worked in a jam factory. Then he worked in a scrap metal yard. With no formal education,

1:36.4

his options were limited. At the canned food factory he caught off a chunk of his thumb

1:42.1

slicing meat. There had to be a better way. Jimmy decided to educate himself. He read

1:49.6

everything he could and found that aside from music, engineering and fabrication made the most

1:55.6

sense to his brain. When the war broke out he found work in a factory manufacturing aircraft.

2:02.0

It was important work and he was good at it. But still it was the music that called him,

2:08.2

and when the drummer of a local band was drafted, Jimmy auditioned for his spot.

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